Diligence
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The degree of care and attention which the law exacts from a person in a particular situation or a given relation' to another person. The word finds its most frequent application in the law of Bailments and of Negligence. Indeed it may be termed the correlative of negligence. DIME (Lat. decent, ten). A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents, or one-tenth of the dollar.